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Lecturers

Dr. Roman Kirschner
 (RK), Luke Franzke (LF), Paulina Zybinska (PZ), Anthea Oestreicher (AO)

Guest

Christine Fraissler, Lolo,

Lecture Interfacing Ecologies by ??? when??Andrea Zaccuri & Lorenzo Fassi: lecture in the framework of Interfacing Ecologies and our seminar about Terrapreta, Milano (IT).

Timeframe

The module takes place over 6 weeks, from 2. May to 9. June 2023 from Tuesday to Friday, 9.00-17.00 - see timetable below for detailed hours and classrooms. Class sessions include lectures, discussions, mentoring sessions, in-class exercises, assignments and independent study blocks. Projects are conducted individually or in a team of three four students at most.

Room

UsuallyThe seminar starts in 5.K10. The rest of the week we are in Viaduktraum (2.A05), yet, we will meet at ****spend a lot of time at Stadionbrache and on excursion. During the whole seminar we can also use the Praxis Poolraum in the Werkstatt Modellbau Projekte ZT 2.E20-UU.

Excursion

On ****, we will visit the Grüezi Garte of IAD Alumni Doris Greenway-Brunschweiler in Allenwinden next to Zug. Meeting point at 10:10 in Unterstock, 6319 Allenwinden or in the train from Zürich (departure 9:10 from HB) to Zug (IR70) or the bus from Zug to Allenwinden (No.1 departure 9:40). End of excursion in Allenwinden around 16:00.

Overview and Objectives

The module 'Spatial Interaction' challenges students to deepen their practical and conceptual knowledge of human interactions in their immediate surroundings. Starting from a location in Zurich where public life and „tamed nature“ overlap, students will develop spatio-technical frameworks for situated interactions. The student projects will connect people and environmental processes with the aim of investigating local impacts of urban (or everyday?) behaviour as well as long-distance effects of individual actions. They will learn how to interface the present mesocosm (collecting environmental data, identifying relationships) and how to anticipate/experiment with advanced techniques like remote sensing or machine vision. Designing in such situations requires the development of strategies for public outreach and communication as well as basic knowledge of intervening in complex systems. Students will work in groups and in a form of self-governed organization.

Groups: 

1. Cheredeeva Victoria, Praxmarer Luis, Sutherland Matilda, Cowley Sonja

2. Galliker Manami, Janthasom Nanthatchaporn Pree, Muniz Gomes Wägli Lyvia, Good Carina, Kemper Lito

3. Linares Burbat Claudio, Eggstein Benjamin, Lohmann Audrey-Meret

4. Orfanou Antonia, Ascic Lukman, Hommel Loïc, Cowley Sonja Bischoff Lea

5. Vita Francesca, Sutherland MatildaPJ Nanthatchaporn, Naegeli MatthiasKemper Saboia De Albuquerque Lito, Good Carina, Walther Elena, Bischoff Lea (???)

Schedule

Old dates that are unconfirmed at in teal.

New dates for 2023 in black.

Literature

1. Donella Meadows: Leverage Points - Places to Intervene in a System.

2. Debra Solomon and Caroline Nevejan: Soil in the city - The Socio-Environmental Substrate.

3. María Puig de la Bellacasa: Soil Times - The Pace of Ecological Care.

4. Meredith Sattler, Carolina Rodriguez. Translating Ecological Systems Models into Generative, Real-Time, Form-Based Visualizations.

5. Georges Perec: Träume von Räumen (Auszug dt.), Espèces d'espace (extrait fr.). (via email)

6. Natasha Myers: A Kria for Cultivating your Inner Plant.

7. Bourdieu, Pierre (1989) Sozialer Raum, symbolischer Raum. In: Dünne J., Raumtheorie - Grundlagentexte aus Philosophie und Kulturwissenschaften, Suhrkamp 2006, 354-368. (via email)

8. Franinovic & Kirschner: Microbiospherians. (via email)

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1. Morton E. O'Kelly: Spatial Interaction.

2. Baccini, et. al.(2012) Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design, MIT Press

3. González de Molina, Manuel, et al. (2014) The Social Metabolism: A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change, Springer

4. Gillian Barker et al.: Entangled Life. Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences. (2014)

5. Jakob von Uexüll: Streifzüge durch die Umwelten von Tieren und Menschen. Ein Bilderbuch unsichtbarer Welten. (1956)

6. Massey, Doreen (2009) Concepts of space and power in theory and in political practice, Documents d'anàlisi geogràfica 55, 15-26

7. Mol, Arthur P. J., et al. (2018) Zur Umweltsoziologie der Netzwerke und Flows. In: Groß M. (ed) Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 140–153

8. Nelson, Mark (2018) Pushing our limits: Insights from Biosphere 2, University of Arizona PressPres

Technical Inputs

Please have a look at the special page about Computer Vision from Bits & Atoms IV.

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1. Exercise Results (Spatialize, Vegetalize, Leverage Points) (65.5.)

2. Concept (1116.5.)

3. Milestone presentation prototype 1 (2026.5.)

4. Vernissage (3.6.)Final internal presentation (97.6.)